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Thiiiiiiis. There is nothing wrong with ambition. Gryffindor and Hufflepuff you could argue are values-based sortings — bravery and loyalty have to do with what kind of person you are. But cleverness and ambition do not. That a person is clever or ambitious is a completely neutral fact about them, it tells you nothing about whether they are kind or cruel, honest or deceitful, trustworthy or fickle.

That I think I’m more driven than I am courageous, constant or intelligent does not mean that I’m on Team Voldemort, okay? okay.

#Sometimes I feel like very few people remember that Harry was only sorted into Gryffindor because he begged the Sorting Hat to not put him in Slytherin. #There are so many grey areas to morality and it’s so subjective anyway that automatically thinking Slytherins are evil pisses all over everything Snape did to help the fight against Voldemort.

All of this. It always irked the damn hell out of me when people automatically assumed Slytherin’s were all bad - I mean what, are a bunch of eleven year old kids evil? Does being sorted into that House just mean they’ve crossed a line from ‘innocent child’ to ‘evil’?

# yes. everyone always said that there wasn’t a witch or wizard who ”went bad” who wasn’t in syltherin and this is a blatant lie. everyone believed sirius to be voldemort’s biggest supporter and he was a gryffindor; even after he was proven innocent the true culprit turned out to be a gryffindor anyway. being ambitious and shrewd and having a decent sense of self-preservation does not make you evil. it just means that maybe you don’t run blindly into trouble with your wand aloft without thinking like gryffindors do. and there is nothing wrong with that. you don’t have to be an overzealous hothead to be a good person.